Fiber connections of the torus longitudinalis in a teleost: Cyprinus carpio re-examined

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 457, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 202-211

  Ito, Hironobu ^a   Yamamoto, Naoyuki ^a   Yoshimoto, Masami ^a   Sawai, Nobuhiko ^a   Yang, Chun Ying ^a   Xue, Hao Gang ^a   Imura, Kosuke ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Afferent fiber course; Afferent sources; Biocytin; HRP; Stratum marginale; Topographic projections

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; PEROXIDASE; TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CARP; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; TELEOST; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CARPS; LYSINE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0037416814     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10560     Document Type: Article

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